Recon They Said.

"What does the king wants with us? He wants us to get fucking killed," Wilson said as he threw the file of briefing into the wet ground.

Wilson got angered because he was reading a briefing that the academy gave for the teacher. As it turns out that the document that the king gave to them didn't tell him and his team that he is going to be a meatshield for the Sonile kingdom offensive.

"Lieutenant Harrington, would you mind to explain this to me?" Wilson asked his subordinate and his teacher, First lieutenant, Herma Harrington.

She picked up the file that Wilson dropped on the ground, "Hmm, let me explain to you."

Maria grabbed a pistol from her holster and aimed it at Herma's direction, "Better do it quickly."

"Ok, so where do I start?" She said.

"Just spit it out ma'am," Andrew said as he aimed the GM6 at her head.

"So this is how it goes..."

FLASHBACK

In the teacher's room of the academy, Herma was sitting on her desk while checking the exam result of the other students. Suddenly, the principal, that fucking principal of the academy, approached her.

"Mrs. Herma, I assume you know what we will do next week?" She asked her while carrying a file on her hands.

"I know, but ma'am, isn't that inhumane that using our students as a meat shield for the Soniel's army?" Herma said with a doubting tone on her.

With a glare on her eyes, she threw the file on her table and left her with a confused face.

'What is wrong with her?' she thought. She opened the brown document on her desk and read it. Her eyes widely opened and she covered his mouth in disgust.

'What the hell is this order? Do the children become a meatshield? What the fuck? Just tell them that they go for a recon? Recon doesn't involve going that close to an encampment. What's this? A recon to our FOB? So they have already become suspicious of us. They will get themselves killed, do they even know that we have an NVG?'

She slammed the document to her table. She left her desk with a wave of anger on her mind.

END OF FLASHBACK

"Ok, so what is our first priority now? In my opinion, we must rescue the students that are sent to the FOB before we are being accused of a war crime," Maria said as she grabbed the HK416 on her backpack.

"Agreed, compared to those who are sent to the Tanerian's encampment. The other Will be shot on sight," Wilson said as he gave a command for his team to move faster by waving his hand.

Through the thick and cold grass of the grassland, they continued to run and run and run. All they think were can they reach the FOB before the students are going to be shot down.

Splash of water, a bit of mud were covering their combat boots. The rain had already fallen on top of their heads.

While running, Maria was holding the rugged tablet on her hands, "How far is it?" I asked as my boots splashed puddle of water.

"Well, does 30 km sounds far enough?" She said as she showed me the tablet from behind.

"We wasted too much time back then, we must stop them ASAP," Wilson replied as he kept running.

Wilson's mind was chaotic. He was figuring how to get the other students safe without compromising their safety and his team safety. He didn't have too many plans because of the circumstances.

Garth asked Wilson about the option that they had, "Wilson, how many options do we have?"

With not so confidence tone and a lot of sweat on her head, he answered, "Honestly, there are many options than involves sacrificing the other student's safety. By compromising, I mean they serve their purpose as a meatshield. The first one that we can do right now is getting to the students first then knocked their guardian at the risk of the students shooting spell at us and forced us to use deadly force. Second, we can use our radio transceiver to send a message to the FOB, but I doubt that the students will ask question first and shoot spell later. The third and the last option is we can use Herma as a form of distraction and moved the students away from the FOB."

Andrew added his opinion, "Hmm, I think the last option is the most practical one right now," he said as he loaded a blue bullet into the chamber of his FNC.

"I agree with Andrew here," Lyra said as he loaded her AK5 with the same rubber bullets.

"It's a good idea, Wilson," Maria added as she loaded her HK416 with the same rubber bullets.

Herma transformed into its dragon form and let us get on her back, "I agree with Wilson on this one, get in here," she said as they got on her back.

As usual, she was weird because her color was like woodland CAMO and she has headphones on her head

The dragon flew to the dark sky and flapped her wings. We work our goggles on our head and Herma flew at the speed of 200km/h.

"Herma, I wonder, what kind of breath attack do you have? We only have encountered your magic bullet," Wilson asked Herma who was flying on the sky.

"Well, I got both fire breath and acid breath," she said as fire spirit out of her mouth.

"Ok, how hot is that fire?" Wilson asked her.

"The Hero said it's about 1000°C, why?" She asked him back.

"Is the fire generated from a source of fuel or is it a direct magic one?" He asked her again.

"Well, the fuel is from my mouth," Herma said.

"Ok, what the of acid do you use for your acid breath?" Wilson asked.

"The strongest acid ever knows to mankind; the sulfuric acid," Herma said proudly although Wilson knew better.

Natalie chuckled a bit knowing that her spell was stronger than one of the godly dragons.

"Sergeant Gallagher, what's so funny?" Lieutenant Collins asked her.

"No sir, you know my spell is stronger than hers," She replied.

"Haha, I know," He replied.

"What do you mean? I thought my acid spell is the strongest that existed in our world. Is there even any acid than that?" Herma asked with a surprised face.

"Well, Sergeant, show her," Andrew gave the commands for her to use that acid spell.

"Behold,[Monica]," She chanted her spell and an acid spear appeared in front of her and shot it at the direction of one of the Tanerian's encampment.

"Monica? What kind of magic spell is that? Anton, what kind of thing did you teach her?" Wilson asked while the acid spear hit the encampment and melt one of the camp and the ground below it. The flesh of the soldier turned into a bubbly black mess and some of them ran in chaos.

"Monica, she gave that name once she figured out the name of the acid. The name is antimonic, fluoro antimonic to be exact. Yup, the strongest acid that she can make right now. Herma, sorry if I'm being disrespectful, but that acid is 20 quintillions stronger than yours. It's a two with nineteen zero behind it," Andrew explained as the others were looking at the hole that Natalie acid made; a bubbly hole with dead bodies flowing on that hole.

"Duh, I hope the tanerian has a good cleanup team. That acid is not going to neutralize soon and that thing will just explode in contact with water plus the reaction is quite poisonous because of the gas product. Don't even think of touching that thing, the only one material that won't oxidize is a PTFE container. Well, Natalie, I think you have made quite a death trap for everyone except for our SDF," Wilson commented on her creation which continued to bubble.

"I wonder, Charlotte. I know that CQC is your expertise, so what did you do on the FOB? Did the D.I teach you CQC a lot?" Maria asked her former best friend turned into a subordinate.

"Yup, she taught me a lot about CQC, although she taught me a lot about a knife and hand-to-hand combat. Well, basically, I could easily disarm anyone with my dagger or my hands. Though this eye that is no longer here still bothering me," she said as she pointed her finger to his eyepatch.

"Yeah, Anton said that an arrow was stuck on that eye right, well, poor you," Cecile said as Andrew grabbed a glass container from his backpack. It was an eye.

"Sir, mind that eye is mine and you can only keep it as our that," Charlotte said as she crossed her hands and grabbed the container from Andrew's hands.

Herma: "The students are there. What should we do?

Once they heard those words. They pulled the charging handle of their perspective rifle and aimed the scope at the students down below. They wore the helmet on their heads and put on their goggles and a ballistic vest.

Garth was holding an MG5, Maria held her HK416, Cecile held an F2000, Wilson held a SCAR-H, Andrew held an FNC, Charlotte held a Carl Gustav M4 with a smoke warhead, and Natalie held an M249. Everything on their weapon used non-lethal ammo so hopefully, no one will get killed.

Wilson: "Do a strafing maneuver and we will blast them with our non-lethal ammo."

Herma: "Roger that sir."

Herma lowered her flight altitude and leaned her wings a bit to the left while we rained a bunch of rubber bullets to the students and thus surprise them. Their escort was Mrs.Husain which created another problem, she is a dragon killer. She surely knew how to counter dragon attacks.

Herma: "You see that. that is Husain. She is going to kill us."

Wilson: "Stop talking and keep shooting."

Herma: "Kill her?"

Wilson: "NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO KICK HER BUCKET."

Herma: "Contact Captain Hasslebrown. We need her VTOL asap."

Wilson: "No, keep flying and distract them all."

Herma: "You see that below; that huge magic circle on the ground. That is Husain's spell to kill a dragon. It contains a barrage of huge fire arrow."

The ground below them was covered by magic circles which started to glow brightly. A magical shield formed around Husain thus bouncing our Rubber bullets.

Wilson: "Did your experience surviving in the forest teach you one thing?"

Andrew: "What is that?"

Wilson: "Brave enough to take a chance."

Wilson jumped from the flying dragon and dive straight into the ground and making a huge explosion.

The explosion left a crater and a bunch of blood in it. But that was an explosion that was created by Wilson. He was landing safely on a nearby opening.

He opened his backpack and grabbed all of the straps that were available on his backpack and used it on his body to reduce noise. He grabbed his assault rifle and attached a suppressor and subsonic bullet onto it. He also loaded tranquilizer ammunition to his pistol. He wore his green shemagh on his head.

"That should serve as a good distraction, well, time to tie down some delinquents," Wilson said as he walked to the unaware students.

He crawled between the thick grass while the students were unaware of him. Mrs.Husain was still preparing her ultimate anti-dragon spell.

Herma: "WILSON, WE'RE PINNED DOWN HERE. SEND BACKUP ASAP BEFORE WE ARE GOING TO BE A ROASTED MEAT."

Wilson: "Relax, we got 240 seconds left. Don't worry."

Herma: "It's EASY FOR YOU TO SAY THAT SINCE YOU'RE NOT THE THAT ARE GOING TO BE A ROAST."

Wilson: "Shut up will ya?"

From the bushes, he grabbed the body of the students one by one and put them out using a stun baton and put them to sleep. Husain still hadn't realized that almost all of her students that she supposed to protect were disappearing one by one.

Wilson: "40 seconds left."

Herma: "The area is too hot, evacuating from the A.O."

"HUSAIN, WHERE IS YOUR STUDENTS?" He shouted while holding the SCAR-H with SLAP bullets on his hands.

Husain was disturbed by Wilson and looked around and found that his students were not there. She abandoned her chants and looked at his direction. She didn't recognize him thanks to the shemagh.

"Who are you? Where are my students?" She asked Wilson and created many magic circles in his direction but Wilson managed to keep his cool.

"Name doesn't matter. They're in a better place. Will you move from here?" Wilson asked her.

"DIE YOU!!!" She shouted as a bunch of magic arrows were shot to his direction.

"Shit," Wilson said as he tried to dodge the magic arrow. Sadly though one of the arrows hit him right on the upper parts of his shoulder. "It's hurt," He said as he shot the SCAR-H to Husain which were protected by the magic barrier.

Husain's magic shield was capable of shielding from the penetration of his SLAB 7.62 bullets, but the shield also drew much mana from her. The sabot rounds were bounced in the process when Wilson shot at her.

"Well, nobody has survived more than five seconds when they're fighting with me," Husain said as he threw a bunch of fireballs at Wilson's direction.

Wilson loaded a smoke grenade to his under-barrel grenade launcher and shot it at Husain's direction to distract her from finding him. However, the smoke grenade was missing by a margin since he was suppressed by Husain's spells.

"HOW TOUGH ARE YOU?" Wilson shot a three-round burst at Husain's direction.

"I figured out that I strong enough to fight that weird army at the north side of the town so I brought my students here and you apparently was enough to wipe them out alone," She replied with a bunch of fireballs at Wilson's direction.

"Are you sure? I'm not even sure," Wilson shot another three rounds in her direction.

"I'm sure," she said as the rounds bounced thanks to her magic shield.

"Husain the dragon slayer, why won't you die?" He shot his full mag combined with a grenade from his grenade launcher.

"Prepare to die now, [Dragon Breath]," Husain said as a flamethrower like flames spew out from her hands and burning the grass around her. Wilson acted quickly by running and switching his telecom kit to FOB's main frequency.

Wilson: "I'm pinned down and need air support A.S.A.P."

Christine: "Ah General, We got your coordinates on the map. Will be there ASAP."

Wilson: "Quick!"

The flamethrower still flaming and Wilson still running from the breath of the dragon. Husain's spell was really powerful that regular firearms won't take effect on her. Suddenly, Wilson tripped on a rock and fell down. His rifle broke down and rendering it unusable.

"Now how will I fight?" I said as I threw my rifle away and threw a hand grenade at Husain's direction.

"Now, How you will fight you, green man," Husain said as she ran to chase me.

Christine: "There will be a rope flying at a very high speed in your direction. Grab on it and you will find your airstrike."

With a good reflex, Wilson saw that rope, and that rope was no joke when Christine said that it is flying fast. It was flying as fast as 240km/h. Wilson ran forward of the rope and grabbed it at the moment that he could grab it.

The rope was attached to an F-15E fighter jet. The WSO was replaced with an onboard A.I that is going to help him and the fighter jet itself was the same as Sobri's meaning that the jet is very advanced. He got on that jet and the G-suit has attached automatically to him and he just had to wear the flight helmet. He took off his shemagh and wore his flight helmet.

"Situation has turned now," He said as he turned on the afterburner of his jet and flew away from the A.O.

The fighter jet is equipped with many A-G missiles and bombs; one of them is the CBU-100. The afterburner itself is the same as Sobri's jet which means that he could fly as fast as Mach 10. He could take out Herma in one strafe if he wants to.

"You're dead now," He marked the location of Husain on his IFF.